pretty impressed with mint 15

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decided to finally have a dabble with linux properly and accidentally wiped my windows 8 install totally while installing mint

cant see me going back now

everything is working a treat out of the box

using the cinammon desktop and had a quick play with kde and liked that as well

anyone else made the switch over ?
 
I went to mint after Ubuntu was giving me too much headache. It found my nvidia driver straight away. Only downside was I had no sound. Back on windows, but I'll try it again soon.
 
Apart from when playing an occasional game I've been using Mint 15 exclusively for a few weeks now and I'm extremely impressed. I prefer it to Windows.
 
I've given Mint 15 Olivia a try as well. I love the UI, really fits in well with my work flow.

One thing I don't know about, maybe someone with more experience in these matters can help or point me in the right direction - hardware drivers for motherboard, video card, audio card. Manufacturer only does Winodes drivers.

It's clear that Linux isn't using my video cards full potential, dragging windows around the screen is painfully slow.
 
ATI Radeon HD 4500

"Painfully slow" is a slight exaggeration. However, the "screen tearing" if you know what I mean is noticeable. The delay in moving the mouse around is quite noticeable too.
 
im assuming you are using the default 'radeon' foss drivers

sudo apt-get install fglrx
reboot

ymmv though, ati's linux drivers are fairly flakey for some people,
 
Thanks for the info. Does "install fglrx" install the drivers or just the control interface?
Just that when I installed it, I found the Catalyst Software in Settings (I think it was in there) but it had crashed and the OS was in low resolution mode.
I tried installing the drivers from the AMD site just to compare and same thing happened. So I uninstalled that am back to where I was now. Oh well anyway I've had enough of all that for now.
 
Had Mint on my Laptop for a while. I've had some free time today so wiped Windows from my main PC and replaced with Mint as well :)
 
I too was quite impressed with Mint... until I installed the latest version of Kubuntu (13.10)!

A very professional looking product (imho!) and well worth a look, if anyone has either the time or the inclination to do so! :)
 
Montala said:
I too was quite impressed with Mint... until I installed the latest version of Kubuntu (13.10)!

A very professional looking product (imho!) and well worth a look, if anyone has either the time or the inclination to do so! :)
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going to try kubuntu out today

is it kde desktop? the only thing i dont like on kde is the start menu , seems to take a few extra clicks to get where you want
 
emu said:
going to try kubuntu out today

is it kde desktop? the only thing i dont like on kde is the start menu , seems to take a few extra clicks to get where you want
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Yes, the 'k' is the clue! ;)

Personally I like the interface, but others (obviously!) will have different views and opinions.

That is one of the beauties, and also perhaps one of the disadvantages of Linux 'distros', as there are so many options you can try, but the most popular ones are usually so for good reason.
 
Montala said:
Yes, the 'k' is the clue! ;)

Personally I like the interface, but others (obviously!) will have different views and opinions.

That is one of the beauties, and also perhaps one of the disadvantages of Linux 'distros', as there are so many options you can try, but the most popular ones are usually so for good reason.
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a simple right click and switch to classic menu and sorted
 
Silly question for the crowd to save me spending ages going around in circles. Can anyone recommend an idiots guide/recommended distro for creating a bootable USB install of a current flavour of Linux I can use to dual boot with whilst I explore Linux?

I managed to create an Ubuntu version a while back although that will be way out of date now, just wondering if there is another Distro that would lend itself to a good looking functional beginners intro to nix as a dual boot/portable USB stick. It seems Ubuntu is less flavour of the month these days for mainstream than once it was as other distros have caught up.

Something a Windows user could take to relatively straight forwardly but still look attractive and modern? Stop laughing at the back, I'm fully aware I don't have the faintest idea what I'm talking about when it comes to *nix :) ;)
 
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